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Show Boy Scouts Set For Observance Of 39th Birthday THE nation's 2.200,000 members mem-bers of the Boy Scouts of America Amer-ica will mark the 39th anniversary anniver-sary of the organization during Boy Scout Week which opens Sunday, Feb. 6, and closes Feb. 12. The anniversary will be observed ob-served in every city and town and most villages and hamlets throughout the nation and its territories. Its theme this year is "Adventure That's Scouting," Scout-ing," and the activities during the celebration will be related to the theme. Sunday has been marked as Boy Scout Sunday in most of the churches. Scouts and their leaders will attend these . religious reli-gious services in uniform, and sermons will touch upon some aspect of the Boy Scout Week theme. . The programs of Scouting, leaders in the organization say, prepare Scouts to face the future, fu-ture, teaching" them the principals princi-pals of construction, not destruction. de-struction. Scouting in the 42 nations na-tions recognized by the Boy Scouts International Bureau has an enrollment of 4,409,780 leaders lead-ers and Scouts. i i i . SCOUT leaders point out that during the past year 1650 Scout tours, authorized by the National Nation-al Council, were conducted. Under Un-der properly certified leadership Scouts from Bay City, Michigan traveled to Fairbanks. Alaska, using bus, train, boat and plane for transportation. Another group visited Montreal. Canada, while another traveled from Lancaster, Lan-caster, Pennsylvania to Key West, Florida. Locally, the Ballard troop chartered its own bus and made a tour of Yellowstone Park. Ballard Bal-lard Scouts are now making preliminary pre-liminary plans for a 1949 tour. Several hundred Senior Scouts took part in long canoe trips down northern rivers, and the Seniors of Columbus, Ohio participated par-ticipated in a "sky meeting," with each member of the group making a glider flight. In the southwest, one Scout party, led by a veteran Scouter who is an archaeologist, and under un-der the sponsorship of the Museum Mu-seum of New Mexico, searched for hidden remnants of an ancient an-cient culture of the southwest. The lack of a Scout Commissioner Commis-sioner in the Roosevelt area has slowed scouting activities during dur-ing the past year, and definite plans for the observance of Boy Scout Week have not been announced. |
